How do citizens balance their preferences for civil liberties and security in the context of a competitive party system? Using case terrorism counter-terrorism, I argue that willingness to support restrictions does not only depend on external shocks being targeted by counter-policy. Instead, it also depends ideological match with policymakers terrorist actors. an original survey experiment cond...

This paper reports the DScenT (Detecting Scent Trails) project, which brought together technologists and behavioural scientists to design and evaluate novel methods for countering terrorism in public places. Through a mixture of prototyping and empirical evaluations, we developed and assessed an immersive environment for detecting and investigating deceptive behaviours indicative of terrorist a...

Governments around the world are uniting in trying to defeat terrorist movements. In this context, recent counter terrorism laws in the UK place public duties on all citizens to help prevent terrorism. Yet, the science of predicting rare events such as terrorist offending yields consistently poor results. There are ethical, clinical and scientific dilemmas facing the professions if we are to in...

This research examines the dynamics of counter-terrorism policies in Indonesia from Old Order (Orde Lama) era to current period. Terrorist attacks have been a threat Indonesia's national security since beginning nation's independence. The government is required counter terrorism through series effective policies. uses descriptive qualitative method with literature study. results obtained are th...

The attacks of 11 September 2001 have profoundly impacted the field terrorism studies. In this article we aim to trace, in particular, impact date on establishment critical studies (CTS) as a school thought. Such an endeavour aims create ‘umbrella-term’ gather scholars from diverse backgrounds, attempt provide counter-narrative dominant, mainstream understanding and counter-terrorism. CTS schol...

This article critically appraises the implications of recent emergence radicalisation cases in family courts England and Wales involvement justice system preventing countering terrorism. It identifies, takes issue with, a dominant narrative, found case-law, practitioner commentaries, think-tank reports academic government literature, which regards as positive legal development. Challenging its ...

The use of Narrative Theory to analyze translations and investigate how the act translation affects construction, reconstruction, circulation narratives is a current trend. This paper scrutinizes counter-terrorism constructed in speeches King Abdullah II Jordan, by drawing on Baker's (2005) theory that all embed promoting peace or violence. scrutinization does not compare English Arabic stretch...

The risk of terrorism is of great concern to many countries and significant resources are spent to counter this threat. A better understanding of the motivation of terrorists and their reasons for selecting certain modes and targets of attack can help improve the decisions to allocate resources in the fight against terrorism. The fundamental question addressed in this article is: "What do terro...

Abstract Models of global governance abound: expert governance, networked algorithmic and old-fashioned juridico-political vie for explanatory power. This article takes up style as a way analysing configurations that do not readily fit particular model governance. Style is particularly revealing when it comes to deliberately unspecified or over-specified, genre-busting, bet-hedging ways imagini...

In the contemporary political climate, terrorism and insurgency are often exploited to an alarming degree by political figures keen to take advantage of a practice that has become ever increasingly equated with innate evil. If we are to believe this common depiction of terrorism, then terrorism is always wrong, and is committed for no other reason than to do harm for harm's sake. However, it is...